Tag: cloud-native

Introduction to Kubernetes Custom Resources

Reading Time: 7 minutes Kubernetes is one of the most impactful open-source software in the last 10 years. Among others, it brings the myth(?) dreamed of auto-scalability. Apart from that, a Kubernetes environment is capable to take care of the applications we deploy within it, ensuring the desired state, and trying to keep the zero-downtime status. What about the …

GraalVM and Micronaut – Hello World

Reading Time: 6 minutes The GraalVM is one of those technologies that are getting interest in the Cloud Native world during the last couple of years. It comes to solve some key challenges when we have to develop services into the Cloud. Moreover, and keeping the context about fast and cloud-oriented software development, we have the modern Java framework …

Adopting a distributed key/value storage

Reading Time: 6 minutes Organization of the information. This is one of the most important challenges in the current era where a massive amount of data is managed. Looking for a distributed key/value store for your system is something not easy. In this article, we will define some desirable features for these kinds of systems and then we will …

How to create a Cloud Native Community Group

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Cloud Native Computing Foundation supports the worldwide community of the Cloud Native Community Groups (CNCG) and currently, they are working on expanding the Cloud Native community around the globe, and they are happy to accept the new local communities to join their network. In this short article, I will describe the few steps and …

New Kids On The Block

Reading Time: 2 minutes Opening new frontiers. That’s the feeling that I had when the CNCF promoted the opportunity to create new Community Groups across the world. I saw it on Twitter, and I thought, “what if.. ?”. Yes, there it is again, the feeling that comes together with that sentence. After that, I thought, “but it would be …

Enter, The NATS

Reading Time: 11 minutes Deliver a message from point A to point B as fast as possible. This is a requirement for humankind for a long time ago. History says there are records from 900 B.C. about Royal Post system in China to practice communication by written documents carried by an intermediary from one person or place to another. …

Fluentd, experience in production

Reading Time: 6 minutes Unified logging systems are increasingly being used to handle the logs from all across the platforms and the applications. These systems are becoming even more important in a cloud scenario where heterogeneous applications of any kind are used to solve the business problems at scale. This article addresses an analysis of one of these unified logging …